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WHATIS Going to Happen With WHOIS? Why is this a people issue? Because to display an EU citizen’s name in WHOIS data would be illegal under the GDPR. ICANN is trying to figure out how to meet their transparency goals while still complying with the GDPR.

Process

CoreOS is being acquired by Red Hat for $250 million! However, people in the community are holding judgment on if this is a good thing. Container Linux will stick around. But, the Openshift team fired off an ill-advised tweet that was later removed. The tweet stated, “With the acquisition of CoreOS, Red Hat engineers now Lead or Co-Lead 15 Kubernetes SIGs.” As Joseph Jacks pointed out, “This should be a call for broader community participation to avoid single-vendor concentration.” I couldn’t agree more. I now believe Google and Red Hat have WAY too much power in the Kubernetes ecosystem. But, It’s better than just Google OR Red Hat having too much power.

“With the acquisition of CoreOS, Red Hat engineers now Lead or Co-Lead 15 Kubernetes SIGs”

Commit together with co-authors: Commit co-authors makes it easy to see who has contributed to every commit, regardless of how many contributors there are — and every author gets attribution in the pull request and in their contribution graph.

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I'm Chris Short, 20+ veteran of the IT industry and 11 year veteran of the US Air Force. I help people and companies embrace DevOps practices and tools through writing and public speaking. I am a staunch advocate for transparency and open source solutions to problems.